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HomePlug
Member Companies Arkados Asoka Comcast Conexant Corporate
Systems Engineering devolo AG DirecTV GE Security GigaFast Gigle Intellon KDDI Linksys MainNet
Communications Motorola Philips RadioShack Russound Samsung Solwise SPiDCOM Yitran ZyXEL HomePlug
Product Spotlight Solwise 200AV HomePlug Adapter with Simple Connect The Solwise
200AV HomePlug Adapter with Simple Connect provides a more convenient way to
create your HomePlug network without the need to run the Device Utility from
a computer – allowing your HomePlug AV devices to create or join a network
with just a press of a button! With transfer
rates of 200Mbps, the Solwise HomePlug AV can easily support full multimedia
home networking throughout the whole house including simultaneous High
Definition and Standard Definition video distribution, whole-house audio,
Voice Over IP and high speed Internet in addition to data networking. Read what the
industry is saying about HomePlug Technology! “Let HomePlug
save the day. This powerline networking standard let’s you create a network
using preexisting electric wiring in any building…Blinding speed? Oh you
betcha…Gives true meaning to the term “plug and play.” You plug it in. It
works. Period.” Technical
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President’s
Letter Matthew
Theall, Intel Corporation
As I mentioned in our last
newsletter, we recently held the 2007 HomePlug Powerline Technology
Conference. With keynote speakers Julian Day, CEO of RadioShack; Stephen
Wildstrom, technology columnist for BusinessWeek; and Martin Manniche, senior
director of engineering at Linksys, the Conference provided a wealth of
information and value for those in attendance. Member companies Arkados,
Asoka, GigaFast, Intellon, Yitran and ZyXEL all participated in the Product
Showcase during the conference, providing interactive demonstrations of their
latest HomePlug products and solutions. There are several feature articles
below that elaborate on the exciting developments that took place during our
conference. As evidenced by these articles, the conference was very
successful, with nearly 200 people in attendance learning about how HomePlug
technology is used for in-home, to-the-home, smart-grid, and command &
control applications. In other news, HomePlug technology
has come one step closer to becoming the worldwide standard. Members
of the alliance have been very involved in the IEEE's efforts to create a
worldwide standard for in-home and access powerline communication
technologies. We are excited about the great level of worldwide industry
support, as evidenced by the final vote the IEEE P1901 work group, which
supported the HomePlug/Panasonic proposal over those from competing
organizations. The Finally, we are making final plans
for CES and CeBIT early next year and expect to have a number of new demos at
each event. I hope you will be able to drop by and see the significant
progress the Alliance has made over the last year. Feature Story:
Just a few short weeks ago in
Boston, members of the IEEE P1901 work group voted to support the proposal
submitted by HomePlug and Panasonic over competing proposals, making it the
sole MAC/PHY proposal remaining in the IEEE’s efforts to create an
international standard for PLC technologies. Members of the At the 2007 HomePlug Powerline
Technology Conference, Arkados President and CEO Oleg Logvinov shared how after
merging the HomePlug proposal with one from Panasonic, the proposal was
selected by the IEEE P1901 work group for the in-home and access clusters and
will now be the only proposal under consideration for the confirmation vote
as the baseline specification. In December, the P1901 work group
will meet in Additionally, the Stay tuned to our upcoming
newsletter editions for the latest updates on the IEEE 1901 developments. Feature Story:
The year 2007 has been an
explosive one for HomePlug AV. At this time last year, AV products were just
starting to ship. They're now shipping en masse, bolstered by the recent
certification of more than 40 HomePlug AV products. Five HomePlug member
companies – Arkados, Conexant, Gigle, Intellon and SPiDCOM – have announced
plans to build HomePlug AV chips, and retail channels have multiple HomePlug
AV products on the shelves. We've seen tremendous success for these products,
and we believe in-home solutions are on the cusp of the mainstream. As Stephen Wildstrom mentioned
during his keynote, in the current state of home networking, networking is
primarily Wi-Fi. But we’re poised for an explosion in home entertainment, and
wireless technology does not do well with the demands of entertainment
content and wasn’t designed for these extensive entertainment uses.
Powerline, on the other hand, is more reliable than wireless, leverages the
existing home infrastructure and is ideal for home automation applications. Wildstrom
continued that the biggest challenge HomePlug products face is low public
awareness, confusion between powerline in-home and BPL, higher cost and
confusion among competing technologies. We know that HomePlug solutions
are the best on the market, but what we've realized is that HomePlug
technology really is the industry's best kept secret. HomePlug technology is
being used in so many different ways to support entertainment applications – from
gaming to whole house audio to HDTV to home theater and IPTV. The connected
home faces a great challenge with all of the competing ‘noise’, Martin
Manniche pointed out in his keynote – between our mobile phones, computers,
home phones, home entertainment and music, devices don’t communicate well.
HomePlug AV is truly a great solution for this issue. But the best part about
HomePlug solutions, which Michael Greeson from The Diffusion Group called
out, is that they truly are plug 'n play, and it's time to get loud about the
fact that HomePlug members are producing these great products that make
setting up your home network simple and easy. One such example of this came from
Michael Stein from Russound, who stated, “HomePlug-based solutions make
mulit-room audio installation as easy as installing new miniblinds or adding
another cable box. Sales and installation of custom audio are no longer tied
to the construction market thanks to solutions like HomePlug.” Finally, as Julian Day mentioned
in his keynote, eventually technology disappears into the background fabric
of peoples' lives and consumers forget it's there. As more products come to
market that embed HomePlug technology inside, the HomePlug Alliance will soon
see how we’ve reached that goal. Feature Story:
"Technology that will
literally be able to change the face of energy" is what Steve Taylor,
president of Corporate Systems Engineering, called the latest developments in
Command & Control (C&C). In 2007, home automation revenue
will hit $5.3 billion. From being able to turn your lights off and on
remotely, to monitoring patients, to notifying the fire department of a smoke
detector being set off, advancements in this technology (in conjunction with
its incredibly low cost) have helped set C&C on track for worldwide
adoption. And all of these applications are simply connected through the
power lines. Additionally, traditional automation companies like General
Electric, Honeywell, IBM, Invensys, Mitsubishi Motorola, Philips, Samsung and
Texas Instruments are looking to capitalize on new market opportunities in
home automation. During the HomePlug Powerline
Technology Conference, the Stay tuned for further
developments in this revolutionary technology. Feature Story:
HomePlug BPL technology is also
making steady strides. Matthew Theall stated in his opening
remarks that the number of services providers backing the HomePlug standard
is on the rise, with more than double the number of SPs globally joining the
Alliance this year from companies like AT&T, Bell Canada, Comcast,
DirecTV, Dish, France Telecom, KDDI, Swisscom, Telecom Italia, Chunghwa
Telecom, SingTel and more. Additionally, service providers are taking
HomePlug seriously, with Asian and European markets growing each year. Additionally, Jim Daugherty from
Intellon noted that more than 40 service providers worldwide are shipping
HomePlug products, including 20 IPTV deployments, making it a true market
leader for carrier grade applications. Werner Fehn from devolo AG in Feature Story:
In the conference session on the
future of the connected home, Andy Melder from Intellon pointed out that
smart grid and energy consumption is one of three market areas where HomePlug
technologies will have a huge impact on in 2008. With applications like automatic
meter reading, real-time monitoring, outage prediction and notification, and
load balancing, HomePlug technology applications like smart grid and
automatic meter reading, real-time monitoring, outage prediction and load
balancing are all possible using HomePlug technology. Oded Hadass from MainNet
Communications stated in the session that HomePlug BPL is the backbone for
smart grid communications, fully meeting utilities’ requirements for network
security, management and control, life-cycle cost, reliability and
performance of the specification, and future readiness. Additionally,
HomePlug BPL has significant advantages over other BPL solutions for smart
grid, including ease of installation, robustness and immunity to noise,
notching, proven field experience and co-existence with HomePlug-based
in-home networks. HomePlug HomePlug HomePlug
Powerline HomePlug/Panasonic
Merged Proposal Takes the First Step in Becoming a Worldwide Standard through
the Efforts of the IEEE P1901 Work Group Member Company
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